One of the executive producers for the new Picard series is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, who has been sharing some of the goings-on from the recently formed writers’ room, as we reported last week when he revealed his galactic map briefing. This week Chabon has again used his Instagram account to reveal more about the show, including the year for the show’s setting.

Regarding the time setting of the show, Chabon’s Instagram post states: “So we finished our first amazing two weeks in the #space2999 writers’ room, and I think all you 99ers out there are really going to “grok” what we have planned.”

Chabon also used an image from the ’70s sci-fi series Space: 1999 to send out his message about the “99” setting of the show.

“Space 2999” seems to be an inside joke and mashup of Space: 1999 and the actual year the show is set, which appears to be 2399. The last time we saw Picard was in the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis, which takes place in the year 2379. At Star Trek Las Vegas, Patrick Stewart said of the setting: “Twenty years will have passed, which is more or less exactly the time between the very last movie – Nemesis – and today.” It appears that Stewart was being specific and that the show will take place exactly 20 years later, or 2399.

2399 puts the new Picard show at the end of the 24th century, which is somewhat poetic as it will bring to an end the century which was the setting for Star Trek: The Next Generation and the two subsequent series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. Through 21 seasons those three series thoroughly covered the period between 2364 and 2378, with Nemesis taking place one year after the Voyager finale. It also brings up the possibility that the show will be a bridge into the 25th century of Star Trek’s future history.

The only known events set out in canon for the post-Nemesis 24th century comes from the 2009 Star Trek movie. J.J. Abrams first Trek film established that in 2387 a supernova which threatened the galaxy exploded, destroying the planet Romulus. Spock was able to prevent the supernova from destroying the rest of the galaxy but he and his ship were drawn back in time, along with a very angry crew of Romulan miners, to kick off the new Kelvin timeline in the 23rd century.

The only known events set out in canon for the post-Nemesis 24th century comes from the 2009 Star Trek movie. J.J. Abrams first Trek film established that in 2387 a supernova which threatened the galaxy exploded

Can we not use "canon" and "2009 star trek movie" in the same sentence please? :D

Well its time to dust off this old thread as the Orville season 2 premiered last Sunday and had its second episode on Wednesday.

I really really liked episode two. A story about an alien porn addiction marriage and redemption. I really really liked the suit on the alien porn dealer I could not sea any difference from where the practical effects ended and the CGI/dub on its voice started It was fantastic. The cgi for the dying sun was super cool and you had some real star trek philosophy shit going down between gordan and the robot.

Seth MacFarlane has some seriously insane latitude for this show. I'm still shocked we got forced gender reassignment surgery in the first season but vaguely gay alien sex was something I never thought would make it to network television.

A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752

I'm not caught up yet, I think I'm on episode 7 or so on Discovery and 1 episode behind on the Orville. I'm enjoying both these shows this season, I feel Orville became AMAZING, especailly with the Isaac's planet arc, although the robot-human romance is still really stupid.

Discovery, I think is better than last season, a lot more cool stories, even though the overall story feels like something out of Marvel. I LOVE Captain Pike. I would prefer him getting the spinoff than the weird Section 31 thing.

I think it sort of funny how the crew on discovery are trying to deal with the problem of the future being written and I'm the writers of the TV show suffer from the problem of the future already being written

I think season 1 was a lot better than season 2. During season 1, at least at some point it was possible to forget that this was supposed to be Star Trek and just enjoy a goofy SF show with very high production value.

Season 2 was probably the worst writing on television I have ever seen. And this for a show that by virtue of it's name, Star Trek, advertises itself as smartly written deep entertainment.

In season 2, back to back scenes aren't even coherent with themselves. The main plot of the story is a completely convoluted time travel plothole. And the story almost becomes a parody of itself by making a character that seems deliberately written to be unlikable and arrogant as the main character. I don't know how people could enjoy seeing Michael Burnham talk down all those people around her. Literally nothing makes sense. No one has any idea wtf is happening. And almost every character except maybe Pike is annoying. On top of that, you can literally see the writers struggle with writing. It is the most tropy tv series I have ever seen. When an episode starts off with giving you more background info on a crew member, you just know they are doing that because that crew member is going to die.

If you compare this show to Star Wars The Last Jedi, it is hard to believe how much worse this tv show is.

They should definitely have made a Pike&Spock series. Now, we have this ship teleported 900 years into the future WTF are they going to do.

And now they are shooting a Picard series. Apparently, they have even more money per episode to blow away than STD had. But how the fuck are you going to shoot a tv series with a 78 year old lead actor? It doesn't make any sense. So it will be like STD, but with a super old dude as the most important actor? I absolutely love Picard in TNG. But why do they think this is a good idea? It boggles the mind.

I think Pike is not in season 3 because something personal happened on set with Pike's actor. So I doubt they will also make a new show based on Pike. They are already trying to get that silly Section 31 thing off the ground. And so far, this has all been a disaster. No one is watching this shit, which is one of the reasons why this thread is completely dead.

I really liked the Orville this season as well. They transitioned a character off the show really well and with class before introducing a new one to replace them. And had probably the funniest scene in television this year for me so far.

A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752